Separating or holding net

ABSTRACT

A separating or holding net has net filaments forming rhombic mesh openings and an elastic edge member that has only a very small amount of slack or no slack.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a separating or holding net. Moreparticularly this invention concerns such a net used with an uprightsurface to form a stowage pocket, for instance on a vehicle seat back.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Such a separating or holding net comprises an elastic netting part whoserhombic mesh openings are formed of string groups running at an angle toone another and each comprising a plurality of net filaments and anelastic edge member extending along at least part of the net mesh edge.

With such a separating or holding net known from the prior art,typically the part of the netting edge provided with an elastic edgemember has a relatively large amount of slack, and as a consequence theseparating or holding net often fails to meet the aesthetic or sometimeseven technical requirements that have been set forth.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide animproved separating or holding net.

Another object is the provision of such an improved separating orholding net that overcomes the above-given disadvantages, in particularwith which the known technical and/or aesthetic disadvantages areovercome.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This object is attained according to the invention by a separating orholding net in which the net filaments forming the rhombic mesh openingsare designed in accordance with the arrangement thereof in the net meshsection so that the elastic edge member of the separating or holdingnet, in the assembled state thereof, has only a very small amount ofslack or no slack. First, the appearance of the separating or holdingnet according to the invention is thereby considerably improved, andalso the technical disadvantages due to an edge region having arelatively undefined design are reliably eliminated.

The net filaments of the separating or holding net according to theinvention differ in one embodiment of the invention, in terms of thetype and/or composition of the material thereof, in accordance with thearrangement thereof in the netting part.

Cumulatively or alternatively, the net filaments may also differ interms of the amount of the material used therefor, in accordance withthe arrangement thereof in the netting part.

It is further possible for the net filaments to differ in terms of theamount of tension to which they are subjected in the manufacture of thenetting part, in accordance with the arrangement thereof in the nettingpart.

According to an advantageous embodiment, the separating or holding netaccording to the invention comprises a plurality of elastic edge membersthat all have a very small amount of slack or no slack in the assembledstate of the separating or holding net.

According to another advantageous embodiment of the separating orholding net according to the invention, parts of the netting edge thatare not provided with the at least one elastic edge member are providedwith at least one relatively stiff edge part.

Advantageously, couplings are arranged between the at least one elasticedge member and the at least one relatively stiff edge part.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The above and other objects, features, and advantages will become morereadily apparent from the following description, reference being made tothe accompanying drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a separating or holding net according tothe invention; and

FIG. 2 is a similar view of a prior-art such net.

SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

As seen in FIG. 1, a separating or holding net 1 according to theinvention has a netting part 2, an elastic edge member 3, a relativelystiff edge part 4, and two couplings 5 and 6 that connect ends of therelatively stiff edge part 4 and the elastic edge member 3.

The netting part 2 is woven from two string groups 7 and 8 running at anangle to one another in the illustrated embodiment of the separating orholding net 1 according to the invention. Each of these two stringgroups 7 and 8 is composed of a plurality of net filaments 9 and 10 thatrun approximately in parallel to one another in the illustratedembodiment, the net filaments 9 and 10 being interconnected so as toform rhombic mesh openings 11.

At the upper netting edge, the netting part 2 is provided with theelastic edge member 3 formed as an elastic band in the illustratedembodiment. The elastic band 3 is supported by the two couplings 5 and 6that are each formed as elastic band couplings 5 and 6 fixed to the freeends of the relatively stiff edge part 4 that is formed as a wire frame.The two elastic band couplings 5 and 6 connect the elastic band 3 andthe wire frame 4 to one another.

In the separating or holding net 1 according to the inventionillustrated in FIG. 1, each of the individual net filaments 12, four ofwhich form one mesh opening or rhombus 11, is formed in the elasticnetting part 2. An intended state of tension of a net string section 12in the assembled state of the separating or holding net 1 according tothe invention is derived on the basis of the respective arrangement ofthe net string section 12 within the netting part 2. In the case of theseparating or holding net 1 according to the invention, this is takeninto account when the relevant net string section 12 is being designed,in order to ensure that in the illustrated embodiment the elastic band 3has no slack or the smallest amount of slack possible.

This can be accomplished, for example, when the net filaments 12 differin terms of type and/or composition of the material thereof, in terms ofthe amount of the material used therefor, and/or in terms of the amountof tension to which they are subjected in the manufacture of the nettingpart 2 in accordance with their position in the netting part.

FIG. 2 illustrates, by way of comparative example, a separating orholding net corresponding to the prior art in which the net filaments 12of the netting part 2 are designed and is produced in the manner knownin the prior art. A comparison of FIGS. 1 and 2 demonstrates that theslack of the elastic band 3 in the case of the separating or holding netaccording to the invention is considerably less than with the separatingor holding net according to the prior art.

I claim:
 1. A separating or holding net comprising: an elastic nettingpart having rhombic mesh openings that are formed of string groupsrunning at an angle to one another and each comprising a plurality ofnet filaments; and an elastic edge member at least on a part of the netmesh edge, the net filaments forming the rhombic mesh openings aredesigned in accordance with the arrangement thereof in the netting partso that the elastic edge member of the separating or holding net, in theassembled state thereof, has only a very low amount of slack or noslack.
 2. The net defined in claim 1, wherein the filaments thereofdiffer in terms of the type and/or composition of the material thereofin accordance with their position in the netting part.
 3. The netdefined in claim 1, wherein the filaments differ in terms of the amountof the material used therefor in accordance with their position in thenetting part.
 4. The net defined in claim 1, wherein the filamentsdiffer in terms of the application of tension to which they aresubjected in the production of the netting part in accordance with theirposition in the netting part.
 5. The net defined in claim 1, wherein theelastic edge member has a very low amount of slack or no slack in theassembled state of the separating or holding net.
 6. The net defined inclaim 1, wherein parts of the netting edge that are not provided withthe minimum one elastic edge member are provided with at least onerelatively stiff edge part.
 7. The net defined in claim 6, furthercomprising: couplings between ends of the elastic edge member and endsof the relatively stiff edge part.